Our People

Jon Michel

Founder

Jon holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from Manchester University.

Having trained with PriceWaterhouse, Jon worked with JP Morgan before moving into executive recruitment, initially in London. Later in Sydney, he helped build Morgan & Banks Banking and Financial Services practice.

Jon consolidated a number of years experience recruiting within investment banking and commenced JMES in 1997 in order to develop a specialist financial services executive search firm.

Michael Lee

Michael manages the JMES Melbourne team.

Prior to entering the recruitment industry, Michael spent twenty years in financial markets managing trading and sales desks in both the Australian and International markets with HSBC, UBS and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

He then entered executive recruitment with Morgan & Banks recruiting at a Senior Management level within the Financial Services industry.

Michael joined JMES in 2003 to assist in establishing the Melbourne office.

Ali Roger

Ali holds a Master of Arts (English Literature) from University of Aberdeen, UK.

Ali spent 7 years working with Hays in their Banking and Financial Services team in both the UK and Sydney. Beginning her recruitment career in the UK, Ali specialised in Investment Management across a variety of domestic and international firms before making the move to Australia. Over the past 4 years in Sydney, Ali headed up Hays’ NSW Banking and Insurance division, and recruited across a variety of disciplines including Corporate & Investment Banking and Wealth Management.She joined JMES in 2012.

Rob Hockedy

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science (Diagnostic Radiography) from University of Exeter, UK.

Rob spent over a year and a half working at Robert Walters in the Banking & Finance team, where he was in charge of recruiting in the debt lending/credit space; covering a broad range of disciplines, such as Corporate, FI, Structured, Project and Leveraged Finance. Rob has worked very closely with both the domestic and international banks in Sydney. Prior to recruitment, Rob was working in London in Real Estate and relocated to Australia in 2014. Rob joined JMES in February 2017.

Daniel Yee

Daniel holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.

Daniel has been in the recruitment and search industry since 2013 starting with the recruitment agency Michael Page managing one of their finance and accounting teams. Daniel specialised in placing finance professionals across commerce, industry, Government and Not-for-Profit. Prior to this, he began his career with an intellectual property law firm upon completion of his tertiary qualification. Daniel joined JMES in 2017.

Samantha Nash

Samantha holds a Bachelor of Communications (Honours) from the University of Western Sydney and a Master of Applied Science in Information Management from Charles Sturt University

She began her research career with a boutique specialist engineering search firm in Sydney where she spent six years before moving into a generalist research role with executive search firm Egon Zehnder International in Sydney. From Egon Zehnder, Samantha then spent two years as a Senior Researcher with Scambler MacGregor – a boutique search firm specialising in financial services. Samantha joined the JMES Sydney office in 2012.